Anthropology 280 - The Edge of Anthropology

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Human Rights This course explores the range of genres and techniques that anthropologists and others have used to convey the lived experience of other cultures. It examines the tension within the discipline between the desire to make these cultures vivid and comprehensible and the need to respect difference and to render the whole in a framework of theory, and considers the aesthetic problems and ethical controversies that arise from writing at the limits of academic discourse. Genres addressed include classic field-based ethnographic monographs, travel narratives, historically informed critiques of earlier ethnographies, reflexive accounts of the process of fieldwork, journalistic reportage, visual documentation, and works of fiction. Among the works considered are Claude Lévi-Strauss' s TristesTropiques; Ruth Landes's The City of Women; Sharon Hutchinson's Nuer Dilemmas; Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge; and Leni Riefenstahl's The Last of the Nuba.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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